Today’s Warm-Up

1. Today’s Warm-Up • Study the action and dialogue in each comic strip panel. • Look for clues that would help you determine the correct order of the panels. • Arrange your comic strip panels in order.

2. Today’s Warm-Up

5. It’s a Plot How the Action Unfolds in a Story

6. Today’s Standards LA.6.2.1.2 Students will locate and analyze the elements of plot structure, including exposition, setting, character development, rising/falling action, conflict/resolution, and theme.

7. Today’s Learning Goals • Recognize how plot structure helps readers understand the action in a story. • Identify the five stages of a plot: • Exposition • Rising Action • Climax • Falling Action • Resolution

8. Out of Order? The Story Lady was on her way to the library when she dropped all of her pages. She tried to pick them up and put them in order. She was in a hurry and may have made mistakes.

9. He couldn’t do it, so he told her about the queen’s evil plan. He warned her not to return home. Snow White found a cottage with seven dwarfs living there. They said she could stay with them. Out of Order? But the evil queen found Snow White. She disguised herself as a witch and tricked Snow White into eating a poison apple. Snow White fell into a deathlike sleep. The dwarfs watched over her day and night. Once there was an evil queen, so jealous of her stepchild’s beauty that she ordered the girl killed. One day a prince happened by, and enchanted by her beauty, kissed Snow White. She woke up! Snow White married the Prince, went to live with him in his village, and they lived happily ever after.

10. He couldn’t do it, so he told her about the queen’s evil plan. He warned her not to return home. Snow White found a cottage with seven dwarfs living there. They said she could stay with them. Out of Order? But the evil queen found Snow White. She disguised herself as a witch and tricked Snow White into eating a poison apple. Snow White fell into a deathlike sleep. The dwarfs watched over her day and night. Once there was an evil queen, so jealous of her stepchild’s beauty that she ordered the girl killed. One day a prince happened by, and enchanted by her beauty, kissed Snow White. She woke up! Snow White married the Prince, went to live with him in his village, and they lived happily ever after.

11. Out of Order? • If the events in a story are told out of order, they don’t make sense. • Every story follows a pattern, a specific sequence of events. • In elementary school, you probably learned that the usual story sequence is: beginning, middle, and end.

12. Sequence of Events BEGINNING END MIDDLE

13. Sequence of Events A more sophisticated way to discuss how events occur in a story is to talk about the story’s plot. Copy this definition : Plot– The series of events in a story.

14. Stages of a Plot Think of plot structure as a mountain.

15. Stages of a Plot Most plots have five stages, detailed in the plot diagram below. Climax Rising Action Falling Action Exposition Resolution

16. Stages of Plot Copy this definition : Exposition– introduces the story’s characters, setting, and basic situation. Exposition

17. Stages of Plot Copy this definition : Rising Action– events that develop and build the conflict; increase reader interest. Rising Action Exposition

18. Stages of Plot Copy this definition : Climax– the turning point; where tension is the greatest Climax Rising Action Exposition

19. Stages of a Plot Copy this definition : Falling Action – events that result from the decision or action of the climax Climax Rising Action Falling Action Exposition

20. Stages of a Plot Copy this definition : Resolution – the final outcome in the story Climax …And they lived happily ever after. Rising Action Falling Action Exposition Resolution

21. Guided Practice Once upon a time there was a frog. One day when he was sitting on his lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds. “Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.” (Continued)

22. Guided Practice The princess was about to jump up and run, but she felt sorry for the frog with the sad and pathetic voice. She asked, “What can I do to help you little frog?” “Well,” said the frog, “I’m not really a frog, but a handsome prince who was turned into a frog by a wicked witch’s spell. The spell can only be broken by the kiss of a beautiful princess.” (Continued)

23. Guided Practice The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips. “I was just kidding,” said the frog. The frog jumped back into the pond and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth. 

24. Guided Practice Once upon a time there was a frog. One day when he was sitting on his lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds. “Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.” (Continued)

25. Guided Practice Once upon a time there was a frog. One day when he was sitting on his lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds. “Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.” (Continued) • Exposition • Introduces the characters (frog and princess) • Introduces the setting (once upon a time, pond)

26. Guided Practice Once upon a time there was a frog. One day when he was sitting on his lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds. “Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.” (Continued) Conflict The frog says he needs help

27. Guided Practice The princess was about to jump up and run, but she felt sorry for the frog with the sad and pathetic voice. She asked, “What can I do to help you little frog?” “Well,” said the frog, “I’m not really a frog, but a handsome prince who was turned into a frog by a wicked witch’s spell. The spell can only be broken by the kiss of a beautiful princess.” (Continued) • Rising Action • The princess discovers the frog’s problem

28. Guided Practice The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips. “I was just kidding,” said the frog. The frog jumped back into the pond and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.  • Rising Action • The princess discovers the frog’s problem. • She decides to help him.

29. Guided Practice The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips. “I was just kidding,” said the frog. The frog jumped back into the pond and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.  Climax The frog reveals the truth.

30. Guided Practice The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips. “I was just kidding,” said the frog. The frog jumped back into the pond and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.  Falling Action The frog makes a quick getaway.

31. Guided Practice The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips. “I was just kidding,” said the frog. The frog jumped back into the pond and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.  • Resolution • The frog goes back to life as usual. • The princess deals with the fact that she kissed a frog.

32. Stages of a Plot Let’s map the story on a plot diagram. Climax: The frog reveals the truth. Rising Action: The princess learns the frog’s problem and decides to help. Falling Action: The frog makes a quick getaway. Climax Resolution: Frog gets on with life, while the princess deals with kissing him. Rising Action Falling Action Exposition: A frog and a princess meet at a pond. The frog has a problem. Exposition Resolution Conflict: The frog says he needs help.

33. Individual Assignment • Read “The School Play” by Gary Soto (page 24). • Identify its parts of plot. • Create a plot diagram like the ones we working on together in class. • If you need help, look at the example and definitions on pages 22-23.